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sniffnoySo last year about this time Youlian disappeared for a weekend, flying out to MIT for the MIT Mystery Hunt where he competed on the Manic Sages team. This year he stayed here solving remotely for Manic Sages, and thus collected other people for a remote solving team in Tufts - mostly just Peter, actually, but also whoever wandered into Youlian's room - which basically consisted of Japser and Winston and Steve and E-Lin (IIRC) on Friday before Mickey's Paranoia game, and me afterward and in the days to follow.
(Perhaps I should say something here about Mickey's appearance and Paranoia game; but I think I'll just stick to mentioning that Sonia was kind of creeped out by me knowing Mark Berberian and E-Lin. Really, you go to lab school, you don't expect some number of your classmates will be going to the university? Oh, I'm also disappointed that we didn't get to kill or take hostage that R&D guy...)
Anyway. Apparently the team Beginner's Luck has won at this point, but the hunt continues, so I'll refrain from commenting on the puzzles for now. I really didn't do very much, as noted above, but I did help a tiny bit on the Hiigara meta, helped a little on Croctograms (well, I suggested a pretty important and correct idea for solving it, but I think the on-site people also came up with it independently a bit ahead of me and just hadn't mentioned it in the chat), led the completion of Space Madness once most others had gone to sleep (though by that point I was essentially doing the obvious with the ideas developed by others), and came up with the key idea for solving I'm Your Magic Man (without even using the thing that was supposed to clue it, actually).
ADDENDUM: Also, amusingly enough, on the Fifth Doctor puzzle, I temporarily became the guy who knows about cricket, despite not actually really knowing much of anything about cricket, because I knew more about it than Peter and Youlian, and the people who actually knew about cricket weren't working on that puzzle at that time...
So, yay.
-Harry
(Perhaps I should say something here about Mickey's appearance and Paranoia game; but I think I'll just stick to mentioning that Sonia was kind of creeped out by me knowing Mark Berberian and E-Lin. Really, you go to lab school, you don't expect some number of your classmates will be going to the university? Oh, I'm also disappointed that we didn't get to kill or take hostage that R&D guy...)
Anyway. Apparently the team Beginner's Luck has won at this point, but the hunt continues, so I'll refrain from commenting on the puzzles for now. I really didn't do very much, as noted above, but I did help a tiny bit on the Hiigara meta, helped a little on Croctograms (well, I suggested a pretty important and correct idea for solving it, but I think the on-site people also came up with it independently a bit ahead of me and just hadn't mentioned it in the chat), led the completion of Space Madness once most others had gone to sleep (though by that point I was essentially doing the obvious with the ideas developed by others), and came up with the key idea for solving I'm Your Magic Man (without even using the thing that was supposed to clue it, actually).
ADDENDUM: Also, amusingly enough, on the Fifth Doctor puzzle, I temporarily became the guy who knows about cricket, despite not actually really knowing much of anything about cricket, because I knew more about it than Peter and Youlian, and the people who actually knew about cricket weren't working on that puzzle at that time...
So, yay.
-Harry
